The Antiquity, Literal Meaning, and Authenticity of the Mosaic Narrative, Examined and EstablishedLongman and Company, Routledge and Company, 1854 - 16 pages |
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... represent the objects of their devotions and worshipped them . If we are deprived of the writings of Moses , we must go to these Idolators a Gen. xi . 1. b Ibid v 7. e Gen. xi . 9 . for information relative to God - the creation of all ...
... represent the objects of their devotions and worshipped them . If we are deprived of the writings of Moses , we must go to these Idolators a Gen. xi . 1. b Ibid v 7. e Gen. xi . 9 . for information relative to God - the creation of all ...
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... represented as rising out of mud ; " but no adequate " generating " cause is introduced - no intelligent mind recognized as directing the agents employed in forming matter into conscious being no " spirit of the Lord , " brooding over ...
... represented as rising out of mud ; " but no adequate " generating " cause is introduced - no intelligent mind recognized as directing the agents employed in forming matter into conscious being no " spirit of the Lord , " brooding over ...
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... represent and preserve words . Several monuments of antiquity still existing clearly show , that the art of writing originally consisted in a clumsy representation of corporeal objects . To make their thoughts visible , they began by ...
... represent and preserve words . Several monuments of antiquity still existing clearly show , that the art of writing originally consisted in a clumsy representation of corporeal objects . To make their thoughts visible , they began by ...
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... represented words indepen dently of objects . At last they found out that way of writing in which the vowels and consonants are expressed separately , by so many distinct characters . By this sublime invention men were enabled , by a ...
... represented words indepen dently of objects . At last they found out that way of writing in which the vowels and consonants are expressed separately , by so many distinct characters . By this sublime invention men were enabled , by a ...
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... represent the Gods " as exceeding in every kind of intemperance , enflamed with anger , and mad with lust as waging wars , fighting battles , and receiving wounds as being full of hatred , given to quarrels , and constantly engaged in ...
... represent the Gods " as exceeding in every kind of intemperance , enflamed with anger , and mad with lust as waging wars , fighting battles , and receiving wounds as being full of hatred , given to quarrels , and constantly engaged in ...
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Page 96 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Page 86 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 91 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 75 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 75 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 26 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 96 - These are the generations of Noah : Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Page 29 - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.
Page 29 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones ; and caused me to pass by them round about ; and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Page 103 - And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.